Woolbright Developer Seeks Hearing Delay

BOYNTON BEACH — Tradewinds Development Corp., developer of the proposed Woolbright Place project, has asked the City Council to postpone a public hearing scheduled for next week.

Controversy over the proposed development has attracted standing-room-only crowds to City Hall a half-dozen times in the past seven months.

Revised plans, which were unanimously rejected last week before about 300 residents at the Planning and Zoning Board`s monthly meeting, were supposed to be approved or rejected by the City Council Tuesday night.

But Tradewinds President Michael Morton asked in a letter last Friday that the hearing be postponed until the May 6 council meeting.

The council will consider the board`s recommendation and a planning staff report, which also recommended denial, in making a decision.

Both the report and the board cited already crowded roads surrounding the development as one reason the project should be denied.

But Tradewinds Development Corp. will submit a traffic analysis of area roads, made by Miami-based Barton-Aschman Associates Inc. The study will refute conclusions made in the city`s report, Morton wrote.

``. . .The rezoning as proposed would have no perceptible effect on the resultant trip generation from this parcel,`` wrote Peter Flotz, director of traffic planning for Barton-Aschman.

``I`m going to be prepared to make a full presentation,`` said Martin Perry, the attorney for Tradewinds. ``What we`re saying is we want the opportunity to have our new engineers complete their study and have the city`s staff take a look at it.``